So now with StarCraft 2 announced, I decided to read some of the novals I have not read yet for StarCraft.

So I went and picked up Queen of Blades, Ghost: Nova, and Firstborn, and will be reading them over the next month.

I was actually surprised to see Ghost: Nova and Firstborn, as I didn't know either was released yet, shows how much I need to catch up with StarCraft after all these years of Diablo and WarCraft running my Blizzard life.

I've got all the Starcraft Novels except Nova and Firstborn, which I've just ordered. The sad thing is, I've never had time to read any of them. I'll soon be doing that in addition to replaying Starcraft and Broodwar. I want to brush up on my lore from there again.

Personally I think they all are a decent read, up and downs of it all.

I think Shadow of the Xel'Naga was a bit stupid, it just didn't have the epic feeling I felt it should have had, and "third" creature that was created by the Xel'Naga made little sense.

Speed of Darkness was actually a good read for me, because I liked seeing what some of those marines were doing down on Mar Sara while the Sons of Korhal start evacuating the planet, before the protoss come to glass it. It also had a ending that was satisfying to me, because it was not a cliche, everyone is happy and beats the bad guys ending.

Liberty's Crusade was sweet just because it gave us another look at the events of the Terran Campaign leading to Raynor defecting and leaving the Sons of Korhal, it adds a lot more depth to the Terran Campaign and lets you really get a better idea of the characters.

The e-book was also good for getting into the minds of Kerrigan and Mengsk.

I have high hopes for these new ones, and it will be nice to see what direction they are taking Nova, as she seems to be the "new" Kerrigan.

I actually enjoyed them more than I thought I would. Some of the scenarios are a little bit different than in the game, but alot of the dialogue is the same verbatum. And it's understandable really considering all we had to go on was them talking on screens in the game.

I really liked Raynor and Kerrigan in them. Mike Liberty, Duke, and Mengsk were neat too. Tassdar and Zeratul were awesome as well. It also seems to me that our Queen of Blades still has a soft spot for the former Marshal hehe, if with a slight sadistic side to that relationship....

It's really made my respect for James Raynor go up too. Out of all the characters in the series he truly seems like a good guy and the most decent one out of them all. It's refreshing coming out of a series where people want to make EVERYONE and their grandmas grey to see a guy who is a real "good ol' boy." as Mike Liberty puts it.

Personally I think they all are a decent read, up and downs of it all.

I think Shadow of the Xel'Naga was a bit stupid, it just didn't have the epic feeling I felt it should have had, and "third" creature that was created by the Xel'Naga made little sense.

Speed of Darkness was actually a good read for me, because I liked seeing what some of those marines were doing down on Mar Sara while the Sons of Korhal start evacuating the planet, before the protoss come to glass it. It also had a ending that was satisfying to me, because it was not a cliche, everyone is happy and beats the bad guys ending.

Liberty's Crusade was sweet just because it gave us another look at the events of the Terran Campaign leading to Raynor defecting and leaving the Sons of Korhal, it adds a lot more depth to the Terran Campaign and lets you really get a better idea of the characters.

The e-book was also good for getting into the minds of Kerrigan and Mengsk.

I have high hopes for these new ones, and it will be nice to see what direction they are taking Nova, as she seems to be the "new" Kerrigan.

Just finished reading Nova. It's a nice book, gritty, tough, captures the setting nicely. Nova scares the crap out of me, her potential for carnage is incredible! She killed over 400 people before becoming a ghost! She also completed the Ghost Program faster than ANYONE before her, including Kerrigan!

Just finished reading Nova. It's a nice book, gritty, tough, captures the setting nicely. Nova scares the crap out of me, her potential for carnage is incredible! She killed over 400 people before becoming a ghost! She also completed the Ghost Program faster than ANYONE before her, including Kerrigan!

Well you see Judicator, she never wanted to kill people. She always was a sweet, lovable little girl until her 15 birthday.....that's when everything changed. I won't spoil much but the reason she actually wanted to join the Ghost Program was because she found out that at the end they wiped your memories, and she so much wanted that to happen.